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The anthropomorphic lens : anthropomorphism, microcosmism, and analogy in early modern thought and visual arts

Title
The anthropomorphic lens : anthropomorphism, microcosmism, and analogy in early modern thought and visual arts / edited by Walter S. Melion, Bret Rothstein, and Michel Weemans.
Publication
  • Leiden : Brill, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Additional Authors
Melion, Walter S.
Description
xxvii, 521 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Series Statement
Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1181 ; volume 34
Uniform Title
Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 34.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  • 17 contributions in English; 1 contribution in French.
Contents
Anthropomorphism and the order of things: Delineating the boundaries of the human: Revolting beasts : animal satire and the animal trails in the Dutch revolt / Anne-Laure van Bruaene. Monkey in the middle / Christina Normore. Landscape and body in Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel / Paul J. Smith. The migrating cannibal : anthropophagy at home and at the edge of the world / Miya Tokumitsu ; Empathy and the constitution of the self: Picturing the soul, living and departed / Nathalie de Brézé. Patience grows : the first roots of Joris Hoefnagel's emblematic art / Marisa Bass. The Album Amicorum and the kaleidoscope of the self : notes on the friendship book of Jacob Heyblocq / Aneta Georgievska-Shine ; Visualizing the body politic: Picturing the 'living' tabernacle in the Antwerp polyglot Bible / Pamela Merrill Brekka. A new heraldry : vision and rhetoric in the Carrara Herbal / Sarah R. Kyle. Anthropomorphic maps : on the aesthetic form and political function of body metaphors in the early modern Europe discourse / Elke Anna Werner -- Figuration and the semiotic potential: Anthropomorphosis and its critics: Prodigies of nature, wonders of the hand : political potents and divine artifice in Haarlem ca. 1600 / Walter S. Melion. Between fiction and reality : the image body in the early modern theory of the symbol / Ralph Dekoninck ; Anthropomorphosis and its conditions: Anthropomorphizing the orders : 'terms' of architectural eloquence in the northern Renaissance / Elizabeth J. Petcu. Visage-paysage : problème de peinture / Bertrand Prévost ; Figuring the impossible: Nobody's Bruegel / Christopher P. Heuer. Morbid fascination: death by Bruegel / Larry Silver ; Metamorphic figuration: Jan van Hemessen's anatomy of pardoy / Bret L. Rothstein. The smoke of sacrifice : anthropomorphism and figure in Karel van Mallery's Sacrifice of Cain and Abel for Louis Richeome's Tableaux Sacrez (1601) / Michel Weemans.
Call Number
JFE 16-3676
ISBN
  • 9789004261709
  • 9004261702
  • 9789004275034 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2014020427
  • 40024371088
OCLC
896834932
Title
The anthropomorphic lens : anthropomorphism, microcosmism, and analogy in early modern thought and visual arts / edited by Walter S. Melion, Bret Rothstein, and Michel Weemans.
Publisher
Leiden : Brill, [2015]
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1181 ; volume 34
Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 34.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language
17 contributions in English; 1 contribution in French.
Added Author
Melion, Walter S., editor.
Other Standard Identifier
40024371088
Research Call Number
JFE 16-3676
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